During the last decade, a great variety of nanostructures (nanotubes, nanofibers or nanowires) based on metals, carbons, polymers or semiconductors, have been synthesized following different synthesis procedures by using nanoporous anodic alumina membranes (AAM) as templates [1]. The principal reason for using templates of nanoporous AAM as precursor patterns lies on the possibility to obtain, ...

Porous silicon obtained on n-type silicon by photoelectrochemical etching in HF, is formed of a macroporous silicon layer beneath a nanoporous silicon layer. Microstructural investigations and chemical analysis at the aiomic level of the nanoporous silicon film (obtained from a highly doped (Ill) oriented Si substrate) have been done by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) a...

Characteristic molecular dynamics of reactant molecules confined in the space of the nanometer scale augments the frequency of collisions with the electrified surface so that a given faradaic reaction can be enhanced at nanoporous electrodes, the so-called nano-confinement effect. Since this effect is grounded on diffusion inside nanopores, it is predicted that adsorption onto the surface will ...

Water is composed of two strong electrochemically active agents, H(+) and OH(-) ions, but has not been used as an active electronic material in oxide semiconductors. In this study, we demonstrate that water-infiltrated nanoporous glass electrically switches an oxide semiconductor from insulator to metal. We fabricated a field-effect transistor structure on an oxide semiconductor, SrTiO(3), usin...

mel-28 (maternal-effect-lethal-28) encodes a conserved protein required for nuclear envelope function and chromosome segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Because mel-28 is a strict maternal-effect lethal gene, its function is required in the early embryo but appears to be dispensable for larval development. We wanted to test the idea that mel-28 has postembryonic roles that are buffered by th...

Nanopore containing graphene nanosheets were synthesized by graphene oxide and a reducing agent using a facile hydrothermal treatment in sodium hydroxide media. The as-prepared nanoporous graphene was incorporated into ethyl cellulose (EC) to prepare the mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for C3H6/C3H8 separation. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) photograph and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy...

1. Introduction Diffusion, i.e. the irregular movement of molecules, is quantified by measuring the rate of molecular fluxes in the direction of falling concentration. In contrast to intuition, considering methanol diffusion in a novel type of nanoporous material (MOF ZIF-8) this rate has now been found to be enhanced rather than slowed down by an opposing flux of labelled molecules [1,2]. In t...

1. Introduction Molecular diffusion is among the famous topics of current research on nanoporous materials [1]. Diffusion of molecules in porous media can be measured by a large variety of experimental methods. However, diffusivities measured with different techniques for the same system vary in several zeolitic systems over more than two orders of magnitude [2]. In many cases the origin of thi...